Sarah Zama's Blog, page 34

X-pression (Berliner Cabaret #AtoZChallenge)

From the very beginning, cabaret was an expression of the popular soul. Its language that of the chanson, the protest song

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Weltstadt (Berliner Cabaret #AtoZChallenge)

Bringing Berlin at the same level – possibly higher – to the other European capitals became a priority of the Reich as the German Empire grew and became more powerful in the second half or the 1800s.

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Variété (Berliner Cabaret #AtoZChallenge)

The variety show originated mainly from the British music halls, where people could drink, eat and smoke while enjoying different numbers from a stage

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Urban Life (Berliner Cabaret #AtoZChallenge)

The emerging of the urban consumer society had a great influence on the evolution of the entertainment language in the interwar years

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Tingeltangel (Berliner Cabaret #AtoZChallenge)

The cabaret scene in Berlin was very divers. There were different forms of similar entertainment. The tingletingel was a lower form of cabaret

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Sensuality (Berliner Cabaret #AtoZChallenge)

During the first years of the Weimar Republic censorship fell almost completely. Nude shows became not only possible but extremely popular.

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Revue (Berliner Cabaret #AtoZChallenge)

During the Weimar Era the revue might have been even more popular than cabaret. Where cabaret always attempted to be a social commentary, and so demanded a certain amount of involvement by the audience, the revue was mindless entertainment that only tried to amuse.

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Queer (Berliner Cabaret #AtoZChallenge)

By the Weimar Era, Berlin had been a queer-friendly city for many decades. The popularity of the drag show was often an effective way of integration

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Parisian (Berliner Cabaret #AtoZChallenge)

Although it found its more meaningful, more socially involved incarnation in Berlin, cabaret was actually born in Paris at the end of the 1800s

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Oral History (Berliner Cabaret #AtoZChallenge)

Berlin cabaret was about life, about the experience, the feelings, the thoughts, the fears, the compromises. It was a mirror of real life

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